Bot master owns up to 250,000 zombie PCs

Bot master owns up to 250,000 zombie PCs
Dan Goodin, The Register 2007-11-11

An American computer security consultant on Friday admitted to using massive botnets to illegally install software on at least 250,000 machines and steal the online banking identities of Windows users by eavesdropping on them while they made financial transactions.

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Bot master owns up to 250,000 zombie PCs 2007-11-11
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Bot master owns up to 250,000 zombie PCs 2007-11-12
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Re: Bot master owns up to 250,000 zombie PCs 2008-01-22
Anonymous (1 replies)

More than likely, he will end up working for the government. Let's face it, he got way to bold, didn't take a lot of precautions, and he had other people working with him; he was more focused on making that money, than thinking of getting caught.

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